Composite for coiled tubing has been tried before, but the industry wasn’t ready yet. Norway’s Prototech is taking another look. New software optimizes composite pipe based on typical CT loading conditions…
Marie Morkved shows how a desire to eschew ‘how we’ve always done it’ helped Maersk Oil take a different approach to well intervention – using coiled hose on its UK North Sea Balloch field. Coilhose…
Gulf of Mexico oil and gas operators have evacuated workers and secured offshore facilities to prepare for the impact of Tropical Storm Cindy. Source: Accuweather As a result of these precautionary measures…
Renewable energy development, including technologies which extract energy from the ocean need to be funded and accelerated to meet carbon reduction targets. Engineers and scientists in Scotland and Aberdeen are ideally positioned to help governments do so…
Seadrill and North Atlantic Drilling Ltd. (NADL) have agreed to further extend a framework deal with Rosneft for the use of rigs until 31 May 2019. The companies first agreed on the deal on 22 August 2014. In November 2014 the long…
Oil Spill Response Ltd. (OSRL), Trendsetter Engineering and Halliburton have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for integrated subsea well-capping response solutions. With the MOU, the companies will create a strategic alliance for…
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) is funding and participating in a federal research partnership that has launched an intensive three-year program to improve assessment studies of protected marine species in the Gulf of Mexico…
ExxonMobil has awarded Maersk Drilling a contract extension valued at US$22.5 million for the ultra deepwater drillship Maersk Viking. The three-year contract, originally scheduled to end in July and valued at $610 million, will now run an additional 150 days into December this year…
DONG Energy has today agreed to sell its E&P business, including a stake in the Rosebank field, west of Shetland, to petro-chemical business Ineos for US$1.05 million, plus $250 million in contingent payments. Ineos, which recently acquired the Forties pipeline system from BP…
Statoil has started drilling at the Blåmann well in the Barents Sea, the first of five wells in its exploration program, the Norwegian giant announced today (22 May). Image of the Songa Enabler…
Former Louisiana state official Scott A. Angelle has been appointed as the director of the US Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE), effective 23 May. Angelle. Image from BSEE. Angelle…
Independent Oil and Gas (IOG) says it has a busy 12 months ahead, as the company prepares to submit the Blythe and Vulcan final development plans (FDP) in the Southern North Sea, with hopes of hitting first gas by 2019. Image from IOG…
Ophir Energy's Ayamé-1X exploration well offshore the Ivory Coast found oil, but not in significant quantities. The well, in block CI-513, reached a total depth of 5394m true vertical depth sub sea. The well was targeting a number…
President Trump wants to take away the Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act (GOMESA) payments from four coastal states in the Department of Interior’s (DOI) proposed US$11.7 billion budget for 2018. Trump…
TGS and Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS) have expanded their jointly owned multi-client library offshore Eastern Canada. Map of Cape Broyle 3D, from TGS. The new Cape Broyle 3D survey…
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